#tru

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable. ↗

— Max Lerner

#always #believe #evil #find #honorable

To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#experience #round #simple #sing #truly

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cause #down #emerge #ever #experiences

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #deal #give

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#destroy #himself #interests #other #person

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#into #lake #lovely #peace #profoundly

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#constitutes #earnest #effort #forward #man

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine. ↗

— David Letterman

#cab #complete #engine #get #guy

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge. ↗

— Edward Levi

#accessibility #alive #along #broad #fields

What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent. ↗

— James Levine

#big #big difference #both #difference #interesting